[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 165 (Thursday, August 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51620-51621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-21611]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-62-00]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639-7090. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6 Pretest (0920-0314)--
Reinstatement--The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)--The 
National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) has been conducted periodically 
by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) since 1973--in 
1973, 1976, 1982, 1988, and 1995. The purpose of the NSFG is to provide 
national statistics on family formation, growth, and dissolution 
(Section 306 of the Public Health Service Act). This includes data on 
factors affecting birth, pregnancy rates, and family formation--such as 
sexual activity, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, contraception, 
infertility, miscarriage, and wanted and unwanted births. The social, 
economic (e.g., education, income, and work), and health factors (such 
as low birth weight and receipt of health care) associated with them 
are also collected. The target universe of the NSFG has always been 
women in the civilian non-institutional population of reproductive age 
(15-44). The population in this pretest includes an independent sample 
of men (15-49), in order to collect data related to male fertility, 
marriage and divorce, and parenting, as well as data to measure the 
risk of HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) and other sexually transmitted 
diseases.
    NSFG data are used by NCHS, the National Institute for Child Health 
and Human Development (NICHD), the Office of Population Affairs, the 
CDC HIV Prevention Program, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Planning and Evaluation (OASPE/DHHS), and the Children's Bureau. 
Specific uses include the Healthy People 2000 and 2010 objectives, 
reporting to Congress required by the 1996 Personal Responsibility and 
Work Opportunity Act (Section 905 and 906), the DHHS Fatherhood 
Initiative, and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, among 
others. Data are published by NCHS, in professional journals, used by 
private academic and nonprofit researchers, and cited by journalists 
and others.
    The NSFG Cycle 6 pretest will include interviews with about 600 
males and 600 females and will test a variety of procedures to improve 
the quality and usefulness of the data. The interviews are conducted in 
person by trained female interviewers in respondents homes. Interviews 
average 60 minutes for males and 80 minutes for females. Remuneration 
is proposed, and will be the subject of an experiment in the pretest. 
The pretest is in preparation for a main study that will include 
interviews with 7,200 males and 11,800 females in 2001 or 2002. The 
annualized burden is estimated to be 1,684.

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                                                                                   Number of
                           Pretest                                Number of      responses  per   Average hours
                                                                 respondents       respondent    per  respondent
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Screening....................................................            2000                1             5/60
Interviewing:
    Males....................................................             600                1                1
    Females..................................................             600                1            80/60
Verification.................................................             200                1             5/60
Cognitive....................................................             100                1                1
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    Dated: August 18, 2000.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 00-21611 Filed 8-23-00; 8:45 am]
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